Word: sped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gracefully away from Washington's National Symphony Orchestra to a man standing in front of the podium, who promptly let fly across the stage with a bowling ball and scored a clean-and noisy-strike. Kostelanetz beamed at the rumble and thud. A few minutes later the music sped up to sound like a bustling city: a rescue-squad man started a wailing siren, a park policeman astride his motorcycle to the right of the stage blew his whistle...
Khrushchev stepped back expectantly, offered Tito the microphone for reply. Tito, poker-faced, impassively motioned Khrushchev toward the waiting cars. Obviously startled, Khrushchev docilely acquiesced. Through crowds chanting: "Ti-to. Tito, Ti-to," the cavalcade of Rolls-Royces, Cadillacs, Packards, Buicks and Mercedes Benzes sped to a constrained tea at Tito's White Palace...
...while. While he did, Enzo Ferrari, who manufactured some of the fastest cars in competition, caught up with him and hired him as a driver. After that, there was no holding Alberto Ascari. Every year, in his Ferraris, he scored more Grand Prix points, and every year he sped closer to death. In The Netherlands Grand Prix in 1949, he lost a wheel while doing 120 m.p.h. Somehow, he survived the wreck. In 1953, at Monza, after winning the Grand Prix championship for the second year in a row, he spun off the track, tangled with two other cars...
...diplomatic credentials failed to arrive in Bonn in time for Sovereignty Day (TIME, May 16), new Ambassador to West Germany James Bryant Conant perked up last week when his Senate confirmation finally showed up. Long a U.S. diplomatic step child as High Commissioner, Harvard's ex-president jubilantly sped off to Bad Kissingen, where West Germany's old (71) President Theodor Heuss was vacationing. Heuss, who had reckoned that the presentation ceremony could wait until he was back on the job, bowed to American haste. He accepted Conant's papers, congratulated him, but barred photographers from snapping...
...invisible. Geneticist Alfred H. Sturtevant described the linear order of genes; Calvin B. Bridges provided proof for the chromosome theory of heredity. In determining that genes control the synthesis of vitamins and amino acids, George Beadle discovered the bread mold, Neurospora, as an effective research tool. This has sped the progress of genetics a hundredfold, was partly responsible for the successful increased production of penicillin...